"(Brian) got into this really touching music with songs like 'In My Room', and 'Good Vibrations' was amazing. The melodies are so beautiful, almost perfect. I began to realize he was one of the most gifted writers of our generation." - Paul Simon

Thanks for forwarding these analyses. Lawrence is one of the most fascinating people of the 20th century . I still read articles debating "what really happened at Deraa?" In the movie I think it was Bently who asked Sherif Ali "what happened to Lawrence at Deraa?" and he replied something like " he's still a man, humbled. "His life after going back home is especially fascinating.

as for the movie, I had seen untold numbers of movies starring Peter O'Toole so knew he would be good, but he just blew me away. As I said, I saw the movie numerous times in the movie theater. One time the scene played where he was racing his motorcycle up a hill in the left lane . a lady in the audience shouted out, "that's why he died - he was in the wrong lane !"

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"(Brian) got into this really touching music with songs like 'In My Room', and 'Good Vibrations' was amazing. The melodies are so beautiful, almost perfect. I began to realize he was one of the most gifted writers of our generation." - Paul Simon

A band called The Beach Boys are mostly going to be a fun in the sun-themed group. And that has, is, and will always be just as it should. There needs to be ONE classic band that isn't a pack of endless "artistic" moan. All people wanna do is make The Beach Boys into another Beatles they are less tired of.And, for anyone who has actually experienced them, surfing and cars carry PLENTY of emotion and life experience. They can carry as much metaphor as any Van Dyke Parks clever epistle.

Seen yesterday "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn, Richard Crenna, Alan Arkin (main villain). Really good film. When you hear its music, the intro, you will not believe it's written by Henry Mancini, "Moon River" fame. He got 2 pianos playing alternatingly in-tune AND detuned to get the eerie effect. I.e. eerie melody is gotten eerier by such technique. Few google pages say he is pioneer in doing it. Is it true? Who can tell? It seems familiar or do I rmbr modern use, *after* Mancini?